Hey, just found ur channel. Great summary, u just forgot the easiest way to farm xp: Operate a siege engine during a battle and get kills.

@Strat-Guides

5 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Good point - they actually added that in a patch after I made this one and I haven't had a chance to update it yet. I'll pin this comment to help others!

"If you found this video helpful".. My dude, that is such an understatement. Your videos are insanely detailed, can only imagine how much time this actually takes.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha thank you, I appreciate you pointing that out. So my average guide takes anywhere from 20 - 30 hours to make on average. Part of that is me being inexperienced and not as efficient, but I think in time I can get that down to 15 - 25 hours. The editing is brutal lol but so important :D

@muhammedgaber3357

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides 3-4 full-time workdays are nothing to scoff at, especially for one video, and you'll definitely get much better at it with time. Really like the inclusion of those random memes here and there without overdoing it. xD Much appreciate how detailed and well articulated these are to preserve viewer time. I hope your channel grows to the extent it deserves, this is genuinely good content.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@muhammedgaber3357 Thank you! As someone who has been self-employed for many years now, that work load is par for the course and I wouldn't have it any other way :D Thank you, I've been working very hard to make these as easily digestible as possible (not easy with all the data and charts lol) but still maintain the integrity of the info. I'll keep working on my process!

@ether23-23

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides If you don't mind me asking, what kind of work do you do?

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@ether23-23 No problem at all! I run a couple of businesses that are in either eCommerce or real estate. eCommerce is mostly Amazon with a little bit of the others like EBay and poshmark etc. Real estate is mostly rental properties. I used to do some flipping, but the market is INSANE right now in the US so I backed off of that and now I spend that time building a KZread channel :D This gaming channel was just supposed to be for practice while I learn how to make videos, then I was going to switch over to a real estate channel, but I'm really enjoying this so I might end up just doing both if time permits.

The siege assault strategy also works without knocking down the walls. You can just park your archers right in front of the ladder area like normal until your archers kill off the enemy archers. To lure enemy melee fighters out, just climb onto the first rung of a ladder and park yourself there. They will swarm the top of the ladder and you can just hang out while your archers mow them down. If it's too risky for you to do it yourself, have your shield infantry do the job by telling them to attack, then ordering them to halt when they start climbing. No wall breach needed.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Very true, it's one of my go to strategies regardless of the breach. I have found that it takes a bit longer without the breach and I burn through my archer's ammo a bit faster since the shields will sometimes block incoming fire. A great point though, especially if you need to take the castle ASAP when the siege camp finishes up, which is more often the case than them letting you build siege engines for 10+ days lol.

I believe a new video explaining how to solve Food and Loyalty problems in cities with a very clickbait title and your "scientific" approach would end up being the definitive guide on the matter to help new players always in trouble

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

This is a really good one, I actually have a plan to cover all aspects of governing towns and castles soon! It's a tricky one for sure.

@jessiecollins97

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Yeah its a bit weird. Haven't had much luck except for one town Zeonica being able to hold its own when it was sitting at 9k prosp

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessiecollins97 9K is pretty healthy! It's always brutal when you're on the front line of a war and your get raided into poverty lol

@jessiecollins97

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Yeah ! My problem is a lot of settlements don't have enough traffic to sustain them so they just end up starving until about 3 or 4k prosperity. Trying to figure out how to get traders to get to these settlements but there are so many variables whether it's war and lords or mercenaries attack said caravans or bandits. Then there's the fact that if a faction is at war with you a great deal of caravans are just out of the equation for your town to receive. I wish there were ways to open with more diplomatic channels with nations that aren't your own. Feels very stale late night on that front. If I could make trade agreements or alliances that would be fun and a way for me to ensure caravans consistently. He'll it'd be fun to setup specific tariffs for specific faction caravans as they enter your towns.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessiecollins97 Hm... You bring up some interesting points. I wonder if creating your own caravan from the troubled city would make a difference? I know they are supposed to travel all over, but it seems they like to return to their origin and I wonder if they would supply the town more than others on the map?? This could be worth a video testing it out. I think you're right about the diplomacy, it feels non-existent other than for war and peace. Trade pacts and alliances would add so much!

This is the Final Episode of the Ultimate Guide to Bannerlord series! All of the skills have now been covered and we will begin our next journey by looking at ALL perks in the game. Stay tuned next Friday for the first episode of the new series! Also I would love some feedback on this new format - I added some new highlighting animations as well as an easier to read text section. Let me know if you prefer this style, or the pop up box with the red outline and text typing onto the screen. Personally, I prefer this look of this as it's easier to read but I'm much more interested in your thoughts!

@dyn9726

2 жыл бұрын

Dude, i love everything you put out, i just can't wait for the ULTIMATE bannerlord series :D

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@dyn9726 I'm going to start working on the Perks next as well as a total guide to combat so it should be good fun!

@Yssauc

2 жыл бұрын

Out of coriosity how many sieges under perfect conditions would you need to max the skill?

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@Yssauc I thought about including this, but it was already at 12 minutes for a single skill so I cut it, but here is the data: With 10 attribute points in intelligence and 5 focus points into engineering, you need 2,334,852.2 base XP (XP at a 1x multiplier) to get to 330. If you take the best method, 638.6XP per day, it would take us 3656.2 days or 43.5 years. The XP is significantly less to get to 300, only 562,795.9XP so about 881.3 days or 10.5 years. It's those last few levels when you are earning less than 1X on the multiplier that are killer.

@DreadX10

2 жыл бұрын

Format approved! Didn't need to pause the video to let the info enter my brain this time (could be because the topic is simpler than the other ones but still).

Early game you can also pick on rebel towns. Don't have to actually take them, just beseige them until you're forced to break off. It won't be loads of exp but it's something to get engineering moving, and it can add up.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great point, I actually forgot about that. Even late game it's effective because at most you have to deal with fighting 3 - 4 rebel parties! When you siege a faction, they would potentially all dog-pile onto you lol. I'll add this to my notes and add it to the revision for when they do some major patches. Thanks for the valuable insight!

@KuhoinX

2 жыл бұрын

In my 200+ hours of gameplay I have not seen one rebel faction... is there an easy way to make them happen?

@kauri8981

2 жыл бұрын

@@KuhoinX You will get an on-screen notification. It happens when town loyalty gets too low. Its common when one kingdom takes a town that has a different culture.

An Early game siege tip, that helps me a bit: -join kingdom as mercenary -siege a castle/town idealy let them build defensive siege engines -before you get attaced by a huge army leave the kingdom, this will let you stay at the siege Camp, build engines and be neutral to that faction. If they build their defensive siege engines build ballistas and let dem destroy again and again, that gave you the most XP in my testing. Have fun brothers :)

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Hol'up, you can maintain the siege even after you declare peace? I've used this technique in the medicine guide for avoiding capture after losing a battle, but I didn't know you could use it for sieging too... I'm not sure if I understand this correctly or not, but if that's the case then this would be the ONLY way to farm Engineering efficiently. Wow, this is awesome, I'm loading up my test save to try it out right now!

@flaviuspoa

2 жыл бұрын

wow there... and you can improve your medicine! lmao

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tip, this is cool! The enemy castle did stop all building progress towards their own siege engines, but I was able to do everything else: build all 4 siege engine types, ram, 2 towers and take down their walls. Very cool!

@rubbldenrudi3940

2 жыл бұрын

Im happy i could help you:) i was able to use this in 1.61 i cant confirm its working in other versions

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@rubbldenrudi3940 I'm on the 1.6.3 beta branch and it works there so I think we are good : )

These guides have been immensely interesting! You're single-handedly pulling me back to check out the games mechanics which I've earlier just glanced upon.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!! I think when they release the next big patch (my guess is 1.7) then we will see a lot of people coming back to play again. They have done some great work here, but still have some more to go :)

The quality of these videos is just something else. Thank you for creating these.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! I love doing deep dives into games and trying to figure out how things work (or don't work for that matter lol TaleWorlds Maths!)

Love the quality of these videos. I think features like letting the audience know timestamps for each part of the video show a brilliant attention to detail and care for viewing experience. Brilliant channel

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm trying to make the videos as useful as possible for learning game mechanics, but also make them entertaining and as short as possible without sacrificing the quality of the data. Let me know if you see any areas that I can improve on to help achieve that goal :D I'm brand new to making videos (2 months now) so I have a TON to learn still.

Any guides i find are outdated but your channel are newer fresh guides that work with the new patches. Earned a new sub. Thanks!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!! I'm going to do my best to keep them updated if any patches change big mechanics. Hopefully they don't and these stay valid though lol they take a long time to do :D

Hey man, discovered your channel today and already binged all your stat guides on bannerlord, even with 500 hours i was able to learn a few new things most significant thing is probably the siege napoleonic strat, up to this point i would just auto deploy and let it play out.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Wow that's a lot of videos to watch! I appreciate the support : ) I have a little over 1k hours and I learned so much in making them. There are a lot of mechanics that they don't tell you about or discuss anywhere so we just have to run tests or (more often for me) accidentally find them lol

Love your work as always, my guy.

Defeat in detail, described on a scale one would think tiny and insignificant, but yeilding incredible results. Napoleonic indeed.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! It's usable out in field battles from time to time as well, but I think this is probably the best example I could come up with in game. It would be nice if the garrison reacted a bit more proactively though.

@perpetualcowlick5678

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides I agree! The AI could use a couple of improvements, to help mitigate strategies that could most easily described as "Fromage", but there's likely a limit, when it comes to sieges. Hopefully the Garrison Commander of the future is a challenge to the player.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@perpetualcowlick5678 Hm... My French is very bad but I think that means cheese? lol I don't feel like google-ing it :) Yeah I agree, it's really difficult to make a good AI. I can't even imagine how hard it is to program that sort of thing.

Elegant, detailed, documented, and stunning. Finding your channel was a godsend, thank you man for all your work! I'd love to see you tackle influence in this extremely scientifically digested format as well!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words!! I appreciate you watching and helping out with the Algorithm. I do have that topic on my list, but it might be a few videos out still since I need finish editing my world conquest campaign and start up the Battlefield Tactics series (this week I hope to have the 1st episode out!!)

@hybridce99

Жыл бұрын

Elegant and stunning, that's a new one 😋

Spat my drink when you showed putting siege weapons in reserve, no wonder it felt like an uphill battle against defender weapons every siege.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it makes such a big difference! It doesn't help that they make no mention of it anywhere in the game :P

Thank you for the great implementation of Napoleon's tactic, definitely will try to use it.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

For sure! It's cool when something like that can actually translate into a game.

@jafu745

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Are there other field battle of sieging tactics from history you could recommend?

Thank you for you're work 💪 As a Bannerlord fan , I love all of your in depth mechanics videos 👌

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I'm working on increasing the quality of the videos for the next series - Bannerlord Perks Guide. I'll have at least one ready by Friday so hopefully it's just as good at the other series! My goal was to keep the same amount of information and testing, keep the video quick and to the point as well as offer more interesting visuals. It's a difficult balance between keeping things moving along at a good pace and making it feel rushed, so if you get a chance to watch that one on Friday please let me know what you think. I'm always looking to improve the quality over all else.

I appreciate how well organized your videos are. Keep up the great work and thanks for the helpfull information.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! I'm glad you like them :D I have Bow uploaded and will release in about 8 hours. I'm also working on the complete guide to melee combat on foot and was hoping to have it done by today, but I found some gaps in my explanations so currently reworking those :) I'll try to get it out by tonight as well if possible!

Congrats on 2k, and thanks for a such a good tutorial

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the support! And always leaving comments, you're always there for me :D

your content is immaculately constructed. chefs kiss

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!!

The game is so god damn incoherent from times (taleworlds math) that videos like these become true blessings in the sky. Thank you for putting all that effort into these tests so i dont have to!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha the TaleWorlds Maths strikes again! I think they should publish a paper for the new mathematics they invented :P No problem, I'm very happy to do them and glad you're enjoying them!

great as always!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I can't wait to dive into the perks next week - it's gonna be fun!

Awesome Strat! Thank you

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure, thank you for the support!

you would've been one of those "just watch a quick tutorial vid and get out" youtubers but i keep coming back so had to sub lol. You got one for everything, have to appreciate the effort too

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I understand, hopefully I continue to earn the sub after as well :D I'm working on a complete town and castle guide right now that should be pretty enlightening. I'm trying to get it out by tomorrow so keep an eye out!

Man you honestly need way more views these are so fkn helpful will be sharing for sure

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I really appreciate the help, it's made a huge difference and the channel is really picking up some steam these last couple of weeks!

the fastest way ive seen engineering grow is from actually using the siege engines. i remember i was trying to build my engineering skill and i had like 3 points there. i used a ballista and in one siege, lvled up to 100

Your tutorials are so good I had no choice but to like and subscribe. Hopefully I'll be able to decode your formula. I am new to this series and there is ALOT of information here.

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Nate!! I appreciate the support :) I yeah it's a ton of info, but hopefully it's mostly practical stuff that can help.

Very informative and well done!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I hope the format of this one was okay still.

Good work my guy.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and the kind words!

great work! this is science. all that's left is a way to farm character level

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I plan on doing a video for that too : ) So basically you gain a base XP (basically what you earn from each action if you had a 1x multiplier) So the best way to level your character the fastest are through skills that earn the most. Riding (horseback archery) and smithing are probably my go to as you can max both of those skills in a very short period of time!

Great guide!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the comment for the YT Algo gods :D

Appreciate the good guide 🙏🏻🙌🏻

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

No problem, I appreciate the support and comment 😀

Incredible guide

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I appreciate it!

Great guide. Nice work.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the support : )

You got a sub sir! Tremendous work.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate the support :D

I've used the siege tactic you described with great success before. I think it works even better if you place your infantry closer to the breach. This way when you pull the defending infantry out they are immediately surrounded by your troops with favorable odds. You basically inverse the favorable defensive position that they have.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it does work really well, as long as you aren't drastically outnumbered anyhow! When I was testing, I was getting about 2-1 kill ratio for my troops, but since I was outnumbered 3-1 then I ran out and they stormed my tier 2 crossbowman shortly after. Under normal circumstances, they enemy would sally out if they were 3-1 odds though so it's not a realistic example that I used lol but more just to prove a point : ) Thanks for watching and the great input!

Played way to long to not realize you can put seige engines in reserve. Seriously a game changer 😂

Thanks for the guides, they have been really helpful. Engineering has absolutely been the most painfully slow skill to level followed closely by Medicine. Even using all the tricks from your videos and other sources they still level incredibly slowly. Wasting several hundred food and losing an entire army of 150+ troops to siege engine splash damage sieginga rebel city using the 'keep destroying enemy siege engines' tactic and barely getting a low single digit number of skill points of it. It's slow and frustrating, takes a lot of time to prepare and can only be done sometimes when the right city is attackable. I really hope there will be better ways for leveling engineering and medicine at some point. It feels like Scouting or Steward level faster passively while in the red than those two skills do using the maximum xp multipler and the optimal tactics.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I feel your pain lol It seems like Engineering in particular needs an overhaul, not just for the XP gain. It seems underwhelming that I can match level 300 engineering build speed by simply inviting 500 more troops to the army. Totally agree with the XP gain as well, it would be nice if siege engine kills in battle gave engineering XP instead of bow or throwing.

Thanks!!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the support!!

Keep in mind, you also get XP for getting kills with your siege equipment within the battle. On defense, build a Ballista, take command of it and shoot at clumped infantry, got to 300 in just a couple sieges doing this. Harder on offense but Catapults can net you some good results. Also a good way to get your companions leveled, haven't found a way to force them to use an engine but if they do I've seen them level pretty quick

With your help I wouldn’t know what to do thank you ❤

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

I'm glad my videos are being put to use!

@MrTerrakotta

Жыл бұрын

Some stuff changed since the video were made. Like leveling the skill: best way is to man the siege engine yourself and shoot ppl with it. You can get close to 300 in one battle by just peppering shield walls with your engine of choice. As attacker you can just tell your men to chill while you play darts with defenders. I'm also sure that Taleworld Math have also changed its rules (as math tend to do, right?) but i don't do TM science experiments to know details.

Thank you for these vids bro. My high ass didn't even know you could put siege engines in reserve

Love you, dont stop what youre doing

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

igualmente my dude!

@PunksGambit

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides omg I just did. You named it that. I love it

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@PunksGambit haha thank YOU :) I also am using that in my world conquest and Satan's tooth took out an enemy Noble in a big battle on a hill with a single swing to the head. It was magnificent!

Now that most of the perks are working it would be nice to get perks guides for each of the groups. I struggle with the choices somethings, thanks again for your guides.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's actually the next project! Great minds think alike : ) I'll have the first perks guide ready by next Friday!

@Kinjoson

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Keep doing what you are doing, best bannerlord guides by far!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kinjoson thank you, and will do!!

Great video! Congratz on the 2k subs man. You deserve it!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It's crazy how fast it's going. I think the last 3 days alone were +250 or more subs, I guess the KZread algorithm gods have decided to bless the channel lol

@SilverWindDub

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides and let’s hope the algorithm keeps the blessings coming! 🤟🏻🤟🏻

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@SilverWindDub Yes, I shall make a worthy sacrifice to the almighty algorithm lol

That offensive guide was great, thank you for sharing! With this sieges will stop beeing lame as hell, as the AI is... let's say not that competent. Good video friend!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Yeah it's interesting that they don't shift their reserves around or sally out, but I think even in real life it would have a tricky thing. They have big numbers, but logistically getting everyone outside through 2 or 3 choke points would be very risky I imagine. For the 3 to 1 part, I had to run it about 4 times before I figured out how to do it so It wasn't THAT easy lol but mostly because I was using a bad techniques. There was also a second breach I could have used, but it was much easier and I wanted to show it could be done with the hardest one.

i didnt know you can put siege engines into reserve. thank you so much for this

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Glad I could help!

Great sieging tactics focusing on one side, a bit cheese but I love it.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's sad the AI doesn't react. They should sally out once they have a certain amount of power over the enemy, but until then this will work still :D

Strat.... Holy hell these are so good it's seriously insane! So noice! No way you can get a disloice! Unless of course you mention he who shall not be named hahahah! No seriously though 12/10 on this series sir. That napoleonic tactic is such a good idea. I always forget how to move troop groups. Thanks for the reminder and this series!!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol thank you!! I really wish they let us do the troop moving prebattle like they do in sieges. It would be nice to split archers up into 2 or 3 groups when fighting huge battles in the field. I always feel like it takes me 20 - 30 seconds, which could be spent maneuvering. TaleWorlds, help us out!!

@halkihaxx5

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides I believe it's not far away. They are at least working on preplanning, and the command system in general I believe. At least I remember seeing a recent update from them showing planned features. Always wondered how to change up groups, great video. Hope you don't take any lessons from Napoleon when it comes to army management.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@halkihaxx5 I can't wait for it! I think they will allow us to pick captains of certain sections of the army, which would be really nice! Finally a use for ALL of those perks. Thank you! Lol he was a great general, but far from perfect. I can't imagine the stress and pressure from being in the position and having to make the right call every time though, so hard to fault anyone.

@BracownReclidobo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides so true. I'm pretty sure the only conclusive error Napoleon made was believing they could endure the Russian winter. Otherwise he was arguably the most brilliant military strategist known. Sun Tzu was also. Oh and myimoto musashi of course- but he is in his own category altogether. Now THAT would be a cool playthrough. Miyamoto musashi was simply the greatest swordsman ever.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@BracownReclidobo I recently watched a cool KZread video on the battle of Yarmouk and the Muslim commander was amazing as well! I've never heard of him before but apparently he was one of the best alive at that time - Khalid ibn al Walid. Oooh also can't leave out Scanderbeg, the scourge of the Ottomans! Where my EU4 fans at?! I do think a Musashi video is in order... Maybe I'll just him as the character for melee combat training!! Thanks for the idea :)

Your guides are so useful! Clear and to the point. LOVE IT.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Still a work in progress but I think we are getting there : )

Found for vlandia a nice strategy, which can be kind of cheese if taken too far. If you have started your kingdom you can leave deep in your territory a "bully" castle. Which you can keep besieging for EXP. It is preferred to have it around a world edge or terrain isolated castle.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Interesting, so the enemy won't bother defending it or they run out of food by the time they get to you? lol That's pretty clever!

@madness8897

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides its pretty much that you leave 1 castle of their culture left over. Its a strat i took over from total war series wherein you dont destroy a culture. But leave them as a bully state you can use for troop and lord leveling. Which you can apply here by sieging their settlement and just before capitulation and surrender, you "force" a peace with them as i expect you to be a faction leader at that point. Let them rebuild and repeat the process again. You can even play this farther by having multiple of these kind of castles to rotate with while forcing peace where needed so you dont take over the castles.

Thanks man

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

No problem, thank you for watching!

@diabolic_edits_27

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you make fun content like this and could you make different campaign videos of mount and blades

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I'm working on a campaign playing as Amir Timur this week actually! I should have episode 1 ready by the weekend (at least that's my hope)

Your napoleon style looks very interesting. Another guy I watch ThreatX does the combine all troops style assault very effectively too though with less patience and more style for streaming. I know there are some cities and castles sieges in general can work less effectively than others.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can't imagine too many people wanting to watch that tactic live lol It's not easy, but also not that exciting. Yeah for sure, there is a castle in the Aserai lands that is brutal for the attacking side. I'm not sure which ones use that map, but it's so easy to defend and farm melee skills with.

Very good job!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate the help with the algorithm :)

@frankcolumbo6465

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides you have done a tremendous job and deserve more likes. Sorry, I don't speak English well :)

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankcolumbo6465 Thank you :) Your English seems perfectly fine to me! What language do you normally use?

@frankcolumbo6465

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Russian

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@frankcolumbo6465 Privet from California :D Spasibo for watching! Lol that's about all I know, aside from the bad words!

Whole this Ultimate Guide to Bannerlord : *x* Skill is definitely genious content! Such a big sandbox games require such knowledge to make a suitable character at the start and toi create a pre-game strategy!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Yeah there are so many options on how to build a character, it certainly helps to have some info on how everything works and how to farm efficiently :)

this came out the same time i decided to see if a video like this existed....

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol that's the KZread algorithm gods at work. Nothing is by chance! : )

Very useful and well made guides, thank you. Can you please make a video about how to efficiently put attribute and focus points in the future? I'm always scared of placing those points to not mess up my characters potential. Also a guide for companions would be really useful, which are good to have and why, which to keep in party, which to give armies to, and so on. Thank you!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching! Yes, I actually have a video near the top of my list about character building! I use a database that I created called the "Hero Builder" and I use that before I start any play through. It's basically just a catalogue of all perks in the game, organized by multiple data points: attribute type, skill type, who it applies to (personal, captain, party leader, etc.). I go through an select which perks I want to have by the end game and then work backwards to get how many points into each I need (both attribute and focus points). We simply take the highest level perk in each category and then use the level cap chart to see how many attribute/focus points are need to achieve that. I also put access to the database on the Discord channel so anyone can go in there and create a duplicate of it for their own personal use. It only requires a Notion account, which is 100% free.

@dreamer5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Thank you very much! I will search for that database on discord.

@dreamer5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides I tried to join the discord with the link from the latest video but it says that the invite has expired.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@dreamer5234 Sorry, try this one: discord.gg/agY7MnCa I think the link keeps expiring. I thought I switched it to permanent link but maybe not.

@dreamer5234

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Yes, that worked, thank you!

I didn't know that one can put siege weapons in reserve. Yes, this video has been very useful

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!! Yeah that one is so important, especially trying to take down a town with all the upgrades, it's really hard to match their build speed.

@fabf77

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides I never make offensive weapons because the loss of soldiers seems not very productive, with this information, making 4 weapons and leaving them in reserve to use them all at the same time is another level.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@fabf77 I"m glad it was helpful! If you can overpower the enemy with siege engines, a ballista spam can wear down the defenders as you have a pretty good chance of killed 1-2 troops per ballista hit.

Groovy

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Awww yeeeah!

Ah yes… Harald hadrada the siege expert xD great content btw, your channel will blow soon

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha Good ole Harry. I know he was involved in a few sieges in his life at least and I really love the Sturgian... I mean the Varangian guards so I figured I would put him in. Thank you for the support! It's been a crazy couple of months so far.

@ollebynke7223

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Maybe i have to factcheck myself there! He was at least a formidable commander!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@ollebynke7223 Yeah my knowledge on him is pretty limited as well, but I do know that like all Scandinavians he was a beast in combat. If only I had long wavy golden hair too...

@ollebynke7223

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides As a Scandinavian, i take this as a most humble praise

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@ollebynke7223 Considering how prolific the Scandinavians were, it's a shame they were mostly known for combat in pop culture. From what I've read, they were some of the most successful traders for many centuries, which during that time is a real achievement in my mind. Also I really like reading about Gustavus Adolphus, so maybe i'm a little biased lol

Awesome guide; some clarification please. Quote: "Other companions' engineering skill does not affect the building speed. Only the party leader if solo or the army leader, if in an army." Does this mean the Engineer slot in your party setup screen doesn't work as intended? I have a companion set in the slot and she's getting engineering xp; I assumed this meant it was working. Thanks. ***EDIT: Forget I asked, seems as if others had the same question. Leaving this up for anyone else who might be confused. Cheers.

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this is one of the most confusing parts about assigning roles! So the only engineer that contributes their engineering skill to the speed of construction is the engineer of the army leader's party. So for example, there are 5 parties in the army, all 5 will have engineers assigned (usually the party leader for the AI). The only one that will use engineering skill to improve the speed is the one in the main army. So if you joined up with someone else's army, your engineer will NOT get build XP and their engineering skill will not be used to speed up building. They will get passive XP for being there, but that's it. So if the army leader has level 1 engineer and everyone else has 330, tough luck because they won't be used lol. If you're leading the army, then whoever is assigned to the engineering role WILL get the build XP and their skill will help speed up the time. I hope this clears things up!

I didn’t even know you had to build siege weapons. I kept waiting outside a city waiting for the blue slots to be filled didn’t even know you had to click on it 😅

@Assassino275

Жыл бұрын

Gosh

Nice video, don't know if this has been mentioned but your companions seem to get Engineering XP too from killing enemies with siege weapons in the actual battle itself, I had a guy gain several levels because he scored a nice hit with several dead. 😂

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this guide needs to be updated - I'm waiting for full release just in case they make other changes. They made it so siege engines give XP now and it's SO much easier to level!

The video was great. A couple of notes however, when you say you should be within 10% of the enemy to ensure they don't break siege or attack, this is kind of inaccurate since the NPC's care more about overall power than numbers. You could have fewer troops than them and still have them break the siege if you have mostly top tier units vs their low tier troops. The other thing of note is that you do not need to wait to be a vassal/merc/king to start leading sieges. My favorite tactic in the early game is to keep track of which towns are taken by opposing cultures and wait for them to rebel. If they can hold off against the first siege from their previous owner, I swoop in after and take it when it is super weak with no food and reduced troops.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great point and I even paused while editing and considered redoing it as you can see in my own footage that I used, I was like 20-25% off from their numbers but much higher troop quality. What I meant to say is that if you have a similar troop composition, then numbers should be within 10% but that's a terrible way of saying it too haha I think within 10-15% of balance of power should have been the right way to go. Woops! Yeah the rebellions are a great point, since you only have to deal with a couple parties at most. I should have added that in there for sure and it's in my notes now for when I have to remake this due to patches. Thank you for the input, these are all great points!! I love how the comment section always got my back : D

This series if the definition of "Someone told me to git gud in multiplayer so now i became a god"

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha good analogy! Now we can all git gud : )

Something must have changed for the released version. I recently manually controlled a ballista and racked up a ton of Engineering xp by sniping enemy archers. However, killing enemies with the onager didn't yield any noticeable xp, even when killing around 10 at a time by hitting directly behind the gate.

@Glo0ze

Жыл бұрын

yeah you get XP for kills with siege engines nowadays. Onager kills do stack up when you hit them on the attack (easy to hit if you destroyyed the wall since they bunch up just behind the hole. So you get a long range shot with lots of kills and u will get massive xp

I subbed for those Ultimate Guides. I am not disappointed

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I've got the Bannerlord Guide to Perks series coming up next!

I love it to make sieges faster

Wow man, I have to say, you're guides are very thorough and well done. I can't imagine how much time the research takes. How much adderall do you take per video?

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah they usually take about 20 - 30 hours each from start to finish lol No adderall, I'm lucky that I naturally have a lot of energy and can focus on one thing at a time well - the problem is I forget about everything else when I'm focused haha I skip meals and stuff all the time on accident :)

Ah yes napoleon's famous 1 man bait where he yo yo'd in the breach until the garrison all mysteriously died

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha I can appreciate the sarcasm, well played sir :) Can you imagine Napoleon peaking his head inside the breach of a fort though? People would go nuts I think lol

I don't know if you have showed this trick in another video, but here is how to win almost any defensive siege. Up to 7 to 1 outnumbered or even more. Before you start the siege battle go to the settings and change the battle size to be about double of the defenders size (200 defenders -> 400 battle size). At the beginning of the battle you should have about 40% of the 400 battle size on your side, no matter how outnumbered you are. Now you simply retreat from the battle when the enemy reaches the wall and start again. Because you are defending you will have less casualties then the enemy, do this a few times and you will no longer be outnumbered and can play the siege normally.

@babaavi4997

2 жыл бұрын

If i want to cheat to win a game, i rather use command than waste time use some trick like this :))

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I'll admit, I've used this in the past in my own games but always felt a little dirty using it lol For the guides I try my best to stay away from cheese tactics since they will most likely be patched out at some point. I still think they can allow retreating, but for a siege defense it would be hard to imagine it working IRL. "Hey guys, I know you're about to take the castle, but we are going to retreat now... so you need to leave. Let's try again in 15 minutes" LOL It would be a funny meme skit for sure!

@rondoclark45

2 жыл бұрын

@@babaavi4997 Exactly. Might as well save yourself time with ctrl+alt+f4.

I really want to try this game. Maybe I'll get a PC that can play it one day lol

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I know they have plans to port over to consoles, not sure if that will be next year or later but that's an options as well!

@iamnotawesome227

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Good to know, but PC is more likely for me unless they port to PS3

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@iamnotawesome227 Ah gotcha - well hopefully you get a chance to play it! It's such a fun game :D

I haven't tried to prolong the siege to gain XP. Now I want to see how long I can drag it out. :)

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol good luck, the enemy nobles like to swarm like flies on poo!

at 1.7.2 you can gain xp now by operating siege engines during the assaults. when you get a kill with the said engines. so some of what you said on this video is already outdated. hope you could "pin" those updated stuff on your comment section so it wont be confusing to new viewers who werent around when this video came out. same goes for your other videos... it would be also be nice to see what version of the game you were doing the said video so future viewers would realize if the tips are still useful or outdated.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah a lot of this guide in particular is outdated, which I went over in a more recent video. I also included the patch that the testing was done in. Once the website is up and running all of this won't be an issue anymore because it will be a lot easier to control the data and be able to show the most updated videos rather than KZread pushing the older video because it has more views :( I appreciate the heads up, it will be fixed soon!

Huh, interestingly your tactic for winning large sieges is pretty well my exact tactic for sieges in warband. Only you don’t need to bait out enemies and I used 1/3 infantry and 2/3 crossbow soldiers

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Nice! I never got to play warband but from what I've heard from everyone, it was amazing for it's time.

Nuts...

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol that reminds me of the American commander who replied to a surrender request during Bastogne: December 22, 1944 To the German Commander, N U T S ! The American Commander

Thumbs up just for the thumbnail never mind the video!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Lol thank you :D

If my archers run out of arrows or bolts I tend to just retreat if the advantage is still too low for a full on clean up charge. After that I just attack them again and repeat until the advantage is high enough

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's a viable strategy, especially on a siege. It's not cheesing in my opinion because it's reasonable to assume you could do it IRL and just reengage after the resupply.

Ah yes, nothing makes me happier than seeing siege engines in action.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Especially that trebuchet, so cool!

Idk if you've heard of De-essing, but there are ways to filter out those sharp 'S' sounds and I think it would really improve the quality of your audio.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean, I try my best to edit them down. Those and the F and P sounds too, it's really bad sometimes. I'm working on getting a pop-filter and a better mic setup. I think this guide in particular was bad because of how many times I said SSSSSSIEGE lol Sorry about that. I'll google up on how to De-Esss, I appreciate the tip!

"we've breached the walls!" :)

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

"AT THEM MEEEEEN!!" :D

Haha, you named your character Harald Hardrada. As did I

Can you update this with the fixes that are coming in 1.8? Great work btw

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I did release a video showing the 1.8.0 changes for both skills and perks (2 separate videos). If I recall, engineering changed in 1.7.2 from giving bow, athletics and throwing to now giving engineering for kills while using a siege engine in battle. Aside from that, this guide still holds true :) I'm going to redo all of the skill and perk guides once we got full release, but I decided against redoing them until then since they may change things.

huh, i didn't even know it was possible to manage troop groups in a siege and deploy them manually. now i can expand my range of tactics from b-lining to an enemy tower, seizing their stones with the fervor of a neanderthal and showing them how it was done like in the good ol' days

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha that's still a good way to get things done! Only now, you can have your buddies follow close behind for support :D

should we expect any guides regarding personal traits as well? like honor, mercy and so on

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

That's a tough one. If I can figure them all out, I'll be happy to. I was able to get a couple of them going, but there are a bunch and I just have not come across it enough to know how to gain them. I'll do some research to see if there is a way to find them in the game files or something, maybe we can hack it : )

@TrueWhiskas

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides another thing, i dont think you mentioned it, unless i let it slip pass my ears, if i have a companion engineer, and defening my fief, all the engineering bonuses will work from governor slot, or only when i have him in my party? or both? and what if i've an engineer in my party, but the current governor appointed by me got zero engineering whatsoever?

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@TrueWhiskas So only the perks that are labeled as Governor will work when that companion had been placed as the governor of your fief. If he has the perks but is in your party as the engineer, then those governor perks will not work. Likewise, if your engineer is placed as the governor, then they will no longer active any of the regular perks, but only the governor perks. For the last question - in my testing I was not able to earn XP for the governor. I think they can only earn XP as the engineer while in a party.

the last exploit is pretty good, there are so many ways to beat useless ai like this i generally try to give them a chance

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I wish the AI was a bit more aggressive at times. Especially when they have such a big advantage!

I thought I’d come up with this tactic all by myself, but damned if Napoleon didn’t beat me to it 🤦‍♂️ worse minds to parallel think with lol

4:12 - if you have *not appointed* an engineer you *_will_* get the xp. i have gotten xp in all those situations because i had no engineer appointed (i guess leaving it vacant counts as appointing yourself engineer just by default)

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's exactly the case! Sorry I should have clarified that better. Any role that is left as "none" go to your main character by default. Thank you for pointing that out!

@jarradscarborough7915

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides no worries, you still earned a sub!

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarradscarborough7915 Haha nice, I won't let you down :D

I did a siege attack with 80 troops against 400 and it was fun... ^_^ get enough food to last about 2 months. And starve the enemy garrison. It'll wipe out about 50% of the enemy and their moral will drop below 20. Then it's as smooth as butter... :D

I never knew you could put siege engines into reserve

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it makes such a big difference!

If I didnt miss it, you didnt say what xp modifier are these numbers for, but basically you need to siege under ideal conditions for about.. 2000 days IF 6386xp per 10 days is without the 12.5x modifier. And if it is with that modifier it would take 25000 days to max out on engineering so to put it in perspective, if you had a character that wouldnt do anything other than to siege under ideal conditions it could likely die of old age before maxing engineering. :D In the first case if we take that day in bannerlord on 2x speed is like 20s the best case scenario that you wont ever even come remotely close to is about 11 hours IRL of just constant siege. Either way its just a "bit" longer than I am willing to spend for this kind of a skill.

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah basically engineering is horrible to grind lol but 1.7.2 they changed it so now you get XP from using siege engines in battle. In my test I went from level 1 to well over 100 with only 83 kills :)

@XtreeterX

2 жыл бұрын

@@Strat-Guides Good to know, thanks for the tip.

I got to level 200 so fast with a catapult in defensive sieges

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they changed it several patches ago so you can finally get XP from siege equipment! It's such a nice change

Can you cover workshops and caravans? Flesson has a good workshop video but it's only which workshop is best, nothing on improving profit, and I can't find anything on if npc's have the racial abilities

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

For sure, Flesson has the best workshop and caravan guides out there, but I can do some experimenting to see if there is a way to improve the ones we already own. I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it, but you have my word it's on the list : ) I'm about halfway through the Vigor perks which will release by Friday.

Yes this works, but if you control the siege engine yourself and kill like 5 people you gain like 13 levels, and if you’re like me who focuses the large group of people behind a ram I’ll kill like 9 in one shot and by the end of the siege I gained 30-50 levels. Try it out cause it works for me. I go during my mercenary phase I’ll end up with like 200 engineering by the time I hit clan level 2 (with 5 learning points spent into it)

Watch from 3:16 to 5:20. You are welcome! 😎

Couldn't care less about engineering, but ill let this run and sacrifice to the algorithm

@Strat-Guides

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I appreciate it! It's a weak skill to level for sure, but there is a lot of info I learned in doing this guide, even after almost 2k hours into the game at this point.

Given the effect of engineering for a governor, do they not get XP for building projects? that sounds a bit weird if they get nothing from building projects.

is it just me or if you have your horse on full sprint and jump into the enemy from a high point, you do a hell a lot more damage?

@Strat-Guides

Жыл бұрын

Hm... I have not noticed that. I should run some tests :D

Need updates please!!!!!!